Facebook Advertising Performance Benchmarks & Insights

Facebook advertising is predicted to hit US$4 billion this year, which is twice the volume of 2010 spending according to eMarketer. While brands are rapidly investing in the space, they lack comparative experience to assess how well their campaigns are performing. Web trends have analyzed over eleven thousand campaigns to provide performance benchmarks brands can use to evaluate their own campaign performance. The Web trends database is a very large sample given the relatively young age of the Facebook ad network (see the stats at left). We focused on a few key metrics. From 2009 to 2010 the average CTR dropped while the costs increased. This is a typical pattern for display ad networks as the audience becomes more savvy and demand causes prices to rise.

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Astute.com - Discover. Nurture. Acquire.

Welcome to Astute. The B2B demand generation experts. Established in 1998, Astute is a market leader in EMEA for technology-focused B2B Demand Generation Marketing, providing expert solutions to clients in order to generate international demand for their products and services through our results-driven, multilingual, integrated campaigns. Astute provides tailored solutions to specialist technology companies across all channels to market including Vendors, Service Providers, Resellers, Systems Integrators and ISV's.

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The Hidden Costs of Doing Nothing: Why B2B Enterprises Need an ABM Platform

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) is built upon the premise that not all accounts are created equal, meaning that some accounts should be prioritized and targeted based on their revenue-generating potential. In fact, a Forrester 2022 Total Economic Impact™ Study found that customers adopting ABM and using a platform purpose-built to provide an account-first context for all data and engagement efforts had a return-on-investment of 367 percent in three years and a payback period of less than six months.

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Your B2B Sales & Marketing Flywheel

whitePaper | June 4, 2021

For B2B industrial and technical companies embracing modern marketing practices, we view the website as your most important marketing asset and lead generation tool. We’ve also said a great website can be like adding a few more people to your company’s sales team. The challenge, however, is to fine tune your website and other digital marketing strategies to provide a stream of marketing qualified leads. And, at the same time, establishing disciplined processes to promptly follow up on each lead. The role of marketing, including how marketing works with sales within B2B companies, has shifted dramatically within just the past few years. Emerging technologies and digital marketing tactics are also blurring the lines between traditional sales and marketing roles. And according to Aberdeen Group, sales and marketing alignment can lead to a 32% increase in year-over-year growth.

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2022 G2 Software Buyer Behavior Report

whitePaper | December 21, 2022

The B2B technology world is built on a foundation of trust. A glut of software options and a lack of credible content in a perpetual buying cycle of increasing complexity make building trust with buyers more difficult than ever. G2’s 2022 Software Buyer Behavior Report illustrates the crisis of trust in the market today and the avenues through which sellers can empower a diverse slate of buyers with the information they need.

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Building Reliable Revenue Streams: How the Most Successful Demand Generation Teams Do It

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

This whitepaper assembles key perspectives and insights culled from our interviews with marketing leaders who have charted a steady course through the choppy waters created when decision-making is placed in the hands of corporate buying committees. Find out what digital demand generation strategies are employed by marketers of enterprise technology solutions who are charged with attracting a steady supply of qualified leads to be processed by their respective sales teams. We found that effective execution of some basic building blocks is essential to advancing and contending to be an “expert” marketing operation.

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The Beginner’s Guide to: Account-based Selling

whitePaper | December 14, 2019

Account-based selling focuses on quality over quantity. Sales teams prioritize their prospecting efforts based on the companies they should be contacting rather than the individuals. They use data to find specific accounts that would benefit from their product and then devise customized, high-touch prospecting approaches for those target accounts. By employing account-based selling, you ensure that your sales teams are focusing on highpotential, high-value accounts, making them more likely to close deals, hit their quotas, and grow your business.

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The Expert’s Guide to Building a GTM Strategy That Works

whitePaper | February 4, 2022

Finding new customers is a constant struggle for any business. Whether you’re launching a new product, entering a new market, or even branding your business, you have to get the word out. That’s why you need a GTM strategy. At its core, a go-to-market strategy is an action plan outlining the steps to be taken by a company so it can reach out to the right audience with the right message to grow and brand itself as a company. In a nutshell, it covers everything from product development to customer service, including business strategy.

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Spotlight

Astute.com - Discover. Nurture. Acquire.

Welcome to Astute. The B2B demand generation experts. Established in 1998, Astute is a market leader in EMEA for technology-focused B2B Demand Generation Marketing, providing expert solutions to clients in order to generate international demand for their products and services through our results-driven, multilingual, integrated campaigns. Astute provides tailored solutions to specialist technology companies across all channels to market including Vendors, Service Providers, Resellers, Systems Integrators and ISV's.

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